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title: The end of life was reserved for the Dog, wherefore the old man is o… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The end of life was reserved for the Dog, wherefore the old man is often snappish, irritable, hard to please, and selfish, tolerant only of his own household, but averse to strangers and to all who do not administer to his comfort or to his necessities. Who acts: Dog, old man, man. A sentence of «Th
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 129

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The end of life was reserved for the Dog, wherefore the old man is often snappish, irritable, hard to please, and selfish, tolerant only of his own household, but averse to strangers and to all who do not administer to his comfort or to his necessities.

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**Who acts:** Dog, old man, man · **What happens:** reserve, be, please, not administer, comfort · **To what, where:** end, all

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dog, old man, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg21:11:129
# text = The end of life was reserved for the Dog, wherefore the old man is often snappish, irritable, hard to please, and selfish, tolerant only of his own household, but averse to strangers and to all who do not administer to his comfort or to his necessities.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	reserved	reserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	snappish	snappish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	irritable	irritable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	selfish	selfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	tolerant	tolerant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
29	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	averse	averse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	45	obl	_	_
42	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj	_	_
43	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	45	advmod	_	_
45	administer	administer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
49	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	necessities	necessity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reserve** | past · passive | the Dog | the end of life |  |  |  | selfish of man's tolerant own household *obl* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the old man |  |  |  |  | often, snappish, wherefore *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the old man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the old man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **please** | to-infinitive | the old man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **not** **administer** | present · do-support |  |  | all |  |  | to man's comfort or man's necessities | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to all=Recipient |
| 7 | **comfort** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom comfort «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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